playlist artwork#12 this weekThe Bad

by Ryan Helinski

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1 5:55 3348 listens
2 7:24 2842 listens
3 7:52 1856 listens
4 4:18 2129 listens
5 4:26 1532 listens
6 4:34 1817 listens

About this album

  • Updated: 29/08/2007

This collection of tracks is less musically refined, more experimental, and more synthetic. The sounds are worth listening to, but may not be entirely entertaining.

"Cruise Control" may be the best of the bunch. It combines many instrumental sounds with a nice set of lyrics. They're comical, but fitting given the cost of gasoline, the way people drive around the city and the kind of vehicles they drive. :)

Although I never had enough time to finish it, "End of the Beginning" was going to be the flagship track for an album. The composition is fine, but it's a little too repetitive for me. The style is symphonic clashing with electronic. The last section before the outro is probably the best part.

"Make You Want to Drive" is another attempt at writing lyrics. While the first verse and the chorus are both great, do not listen to the second verse--it's horrible. Unless you have a sense of humor like mine, skip over it.

"Rubber Ducky" is a track wherein I finally found a spot to insert an instrument that I constructed--a bass guitar amplified through a 1 1/2" speaker which I overdrove to produce the bright (almost brassy) sound. Overall, however, the composition needs another melody because everything's too similar.

"Summer is Back" is another track with a lot of good ideas, but not enough excitement and composition to make it memorable.

"Intersecting Worlds" was an attempt to break free from the composition paradox I encountered with "End of the Beginning" so it may feel like a reprise of that track. It's even longer than "End of the Beginning", but there's more entertainment/minute, so enjoy.

The tracks of this album are published under a Creative Commons licence, check the licence associated to each track.

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dixan

Not superoriginal...

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dixan • 2011-12-08 08:03:53

... but worth a spin. Feels like deja-ecuté and I would dig some more "guts" to some beats, but I acknowledge that others might enjoy more than I do give it a try!
Jeff1966

Ryan Rocks ! ! !

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Jeff1966 • 2007-09-08 20:39:13

Like all of Ryan's works, I love this one too. You could start with any of the "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" series, and any one of them will make you want to hear the other two.
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